Combining beautifully handwritten notes with watercolor-and-pencil drawings, author and calligrapher Barbara Bash captures exquisite moments of magic in the natural environment: a dragonfly’s brief pause, a surprised deer in tall grass, a lumbering skunk’s visit, the woods at twilight.
True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude
by Barbara Bash
October 2012
ISBN: 978-1-934608-31-9
paperback
7.5 x 9.5 in., 160 pages
$19.95
Celebrating the new, expanded edition of True Nature — the Second Edition features sixteen pages of drawing exercises, utilizing the principles of heaven, earth, and humanity in a fresh approach to nature journaling.
In this new and expanded edition, artist and writer Barbara Bash has re-created her chronicles of meditation and contemplative wandering during a series of solitary country retreats. Combining beautifully handwritten notes with watercolor-and-pencil drawings, she captures exquisite moments of magic in the natural environment: a dragonfly’s brief pause, a surprised deer in tall grass, a lumbering skunk’s visit, the woods at twilight. Anyone nourished by the natural world will recognize in Barbara a kindred spirit and find hours of pleasure in these pages.
Reviewed in the Huntington Post, 2013